The Guardian – Weekend crossword No 486 – Apr 25 2020 – Puzzle Answers
Published in The Guardian Weekend.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘And we are here as on a __ plain/ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight’ Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach | DARKLING |
| 1855 poem and collection of poems by Tennyson | MAUD |
| __, vita brevis? | ARSLONGA |
| Crime writer known for her novels featuring Dr Tony Hill | VAL |
| Former railway franchise on the East Coast Main Line. | GNER |
| Greek primordial deity, the ancestral mother of all life | GAIA |
| Increasingly archaic name for the Republican Party | GOP |
| Oil producers’ forum formed in 1960 | OPEC |
| Ollie __, England batter | POPE |
| One of the constituent colleges of the University of London | QUEENMARY |
| Philosopher and mathematician in classical times, murdered by a mob | HYPATIA |
| Pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh, author of The 1 18 | JOSEPHINE |
| River running through Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam | MEKONG |
| Sara __, author of the V I Warshawski novels | PARETSKY |
| See 11 Across | OFTIME |
| See 5 | TEY |
| See 7 | MCDERMID |
| Sir Salman __, author of The Satanic Verses | RUSHDIE |
| Tent from the central Asian steppe | YURT |
| The capital of Paraguay | ASUNCION |
| The __, crime thriller in which Richard III is exonerated of the murders of his nephews | DAUGHTER |
| The __, racing driver in Top Gear? | STIG |
| Umberto __, author of The Name of the Rose | ECO |
| Victor __, author of Les Misérables | HUGO |